Pinnacle Movie Box Drivers

**rocky_raccoon** · November 28th, 2011

Any luck with that driver? It looks a bit strange to me.

I recently got a MovieBox HD, so if anyone found out how to make it work under Linux, please help.

**73ckn797** · November 29th, 2011

I quit looking several years ago.

**G4dget** · January 22nd, 2013

I believe giving up on linux compatibility for any type of Pinnacle device is probably the only solution at this point unless someone knows a lot about taking a windows driver into linux. Which at that point I believe the suggestion is to go buy a dvd recorder with a/v inputs as it will save a whole heap of time.

I have a moviebox usb-b and while ubuntu 10.04 recognizes it via lsusb i have had no success in it working. The "driver" from sourceforge seems to have no documentation of how to get it working at all and seems to be a dead project.

My only success in getting my moviebox to work "as the only driver is for 32 a 32 bit OS" was to install it on an old winxp laptop I had and find a copy of pinnacle studio 9.3 as all the newer versions were reliant on a 64 bit processor.

I am curious though if anyone knows much about the sourceforge driver or any benefits to these types of cards running in linux. If I had the extra cash I would definitely just go with a dvd recorder option and toss this piece of hardware in the trash.

**G4dget** · December 29th, 2013

NEW UPDATE

So after having my windows install completely crap out on me. I have decided to re-double my efforts to get this device running in ubuntu. I have been unsuccessful as of yet but did make a breakthrough on the sourceforge moviebox driver that has been mention throughout this thread. It is not typical source using

Code:

./configure&&make&&sudo checkinstall

but appears to be C source code and firmware for a module. I have no idea where to start in building a custom module from source.

If anyone that knows a lot about building modules is able to please msg me or respond on this thread. There are 3 <name>.o files in this along with firmware and what appears to be everything needed to just compile them into .ko files ready for the kernal.

Driver Download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pinnaclembusb/